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| Preface | |
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| Correlation Guide | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Explations Of Crime | |
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| Is Crime Beneficial to Society? | |
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| Yes: Emile Durkheim, from The Rules of Sociological Method (The Free Press, 1938) | |
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| NO: Daniel Patrick Moynihan, from "Defining Deviancy Down," The American Scholar (Winter 1993) | |
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| Is Criminal Behavior Determined Biologically? | |
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| Yes: Adrian Raine, from "The Biological Basis of Crime," in James Q. Wilson and John Petersilia, eds., Crime: Public Policies for Crime Control (ICS Press, 2002) | |
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| No: Jeffrey H. Reiman, from The Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get ? Prison: Ideology, Class, and Criminal Justice (Allyn & Bacon, 1998) | |
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| Is a Person's Body Type Clearly Linked to Criminal Behavior? | |
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| Yes: Sean Maddan, Jeffrey T. Walker, and J. Mitchell Miller, from "Physiques, Somatotypes and Crime." An essay. (2009) | |
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| No: Chris L. Gibson and Kevin M. Beaver, from "Does Body Type Really Have an Effect on Criminal Behavior?" An essay. (2009) | |
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| Contemporary Public Policy Issues In Criminology And Criminal Justice | |
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| Does the United States Have a Right to Torture Suspected Terrorists? | |
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| Yes: Andrew A. Moher, from "The Lesser of Two Evils? An Argument for Judicially Sanctioned Torture in a Post-9/11 World," Thomas Jefferson Law Review (Spring 2004) | |
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| No: Elisa Massimino, from "Leading by Example? U.S. Interrogation of Prisoners in the War on Terror," Criminal Justice Ethics (Winter 2004) | |
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| Is Racial Profiling an Acceptable Law Enforcement Strategy? | |
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| Yes: Jared Taylor and Glayde Whitney, from "Racial Profiling: Is There an Empirical Basis?" Mankind Quarterly (Spring 2002) | |
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| No: Michael J. Lynch, from "Misleading 'Evidence' and the Misguided Attempt to Generate Racial Profiles of Criminals; Correcting Fallacies and Calculations Concerning Race and Crime in Taylor and Whitney's Analysis of Racial Profiling," Mankind Quarterly (Spring 2002) | |
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| Should Juvenile Courts Be Abolished? | |
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| Yes: Barry C. Feld, from Bad Kids: Race and the Transformation of the Juvenile Court (Oxford University Press, 1999) | |
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| No: Vincent Schiraldi and Jason Ziedenberg, from The Florida Experiment: An Analysis of the Impact of Granting Prosecutors Discretion to Try Juveniles as Adults (July 1999) | |
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| Is Exposure to Pornography Related to Increased Rates of Rape? | |
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| Yes: Diana E. H. Russell, from Dangerous Relationships: Pornography, Misogyny, and Rape (Sage, 1998) | |
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| No: Anthony D'Amato, from "Porn Up, Rape Down,' Northwestern Public Law Research Paper No. 913013 (2006)p150 | |
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| Punishment | |
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| Are Supermax (Control Unit) Prisons an Appropriate Way to Punish Hardened Criminals? | |
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| Yes: Gregory L. Hershberger, from "To the Max," Corrections Today (February 1998) | |
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| No: Rodney J. Henningsen, W. Wesley Johnson, and Terry Wells, from "Supermax Prisons: Panacea or Desperation?" Corrections Management Quarterly (Spring 1999) | |
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| Do Three Strikes Sentencing Laws and Other "Get Tough" Approaches Really Work? | |
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| Yes: Eugene H. Methvin, from "Mugged by Reality," Policy Review (July/August 1997) | |
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| No: David Shichor, from "Three Strikes as a Public Policy," Crime & Delinquency (October 1997) | |
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| Should Private "For-Profit" Corporations Be Allowed to Run U.S. Prisons? | |
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| Yes: Wayne H. Calabrese, from "Low Cost, High Quality, Good Fit: Why Not Privatization?" Privatizing Correctional Institutions (1996) | |
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| No: Jeff Sinden, from "The Problem of Prison Privatization: The U.S. Experience," Capitalist Punishment: Prison Privatization & Human Rights (2003) | |
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| Is Capital Punishment a Bad Public Policy? | |
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| Yes: David Von Drehle, from "Miscarriage of Justice: Why the Death Penalty Doesn't Work," The Washington Post Magazine (February 5, 1995) | |
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| No: Ernest van den Haag, from "The Ultimate Punishment: A Defense," Harvard Law Review (May 1986) | |
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| Modern Trends In Criminology And Criminal Justice | |
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| Should Serious Sex Offenders Be Castrated? | |
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| Yes: Lawrence Wright, from "The Case for Castration," Texas Monthly (May 1992) | |
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| No: Kari A. Vanderzyl, from "Castration as an Alternative to Incarceration: An Impotent Approach to the Punishment of Sex Offenders," Northern Illinois University Law Review (Fall 1994) | |
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| Do Strict Gun Control Laws Reduce the Number of Homicides in the United States? | |
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| Yes: Franklin E. Zimring, from "Firearms, Violence, and the Potential Impact of Firearms Control," Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics (Spring 2004) | |
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| No: Lance K. Stell, from "The Production of Criminal Violence in America: Is Strict Gun Control the Solution?" Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics (Spring 2004) | |
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| Should the Police Enforce Zero-Tolerance Laws? | |
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| Yes: George L. Kelling and William J. Bratton, from "Declining Crime Rates: Insiders' Views of the New York City Story," The Journal of Criminal Law & Criminology (Summer 1998) | |
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| No: Judith A. Greene, from "Zero Tolerance: A Case Study of Police Policies and Practices in New York City," Crime & Delinquency (April 1999) | |
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| Should Marijuana Be Legalized? | |
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| Yes: Ethan A. Nadelmann, from "An End to Marijuana Prohibition: The Drive to Legalize Picks Up," National Review (July 12, 2004) | |
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| No: John P. Walters, from "No Surrender," National Review (September 27, 2004) | |
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| Should Juries Be Able to Disregard the Law and Free "Guilty" Persons in Racially Charged Cases? | |
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| Yes: Paul Butler, from "Racially Based Jury Nullification: Black Power in the Criminal Justice System," Yale Law Journal (December 1995) | |
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| No: Randall Kennedy, from "After the Cheers," The New Republic (October 23, 1995) | |
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| The U.S. Supreme Court, Crime, And The Justice System | |
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| Does the U.S. Constitution Protect the Right to Possess a Firearm? | |
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| Yes: Antonin E. Scalia, form Majority Opinion, District of Columbia v. Heller, 554 U.S. 570(2008) | |
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| No: John Paul Stevens, from Dissenting Opinion, District of Columbia v. Heller, 554 U.S. 570 (2008) | |
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| Is the Death Penalty an Unconstitutional Punishment for Juvenile Offenders? | |
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| Yes: Anthony M. Kennedy, from Majority Opinion, Roper v. Simmons, U.S. Supreme Court (2005) | |
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| No: Antonin E. Scalia, from Dissenting Opinion, Roper v. Simmons, U.S. Supreme Court (2005) | |
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| Issue 19 | |
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| Yes: Stephen Breyer, from "Dissenting Opinion," Kansas v. Hendricks, U.S. Supreme Court (1997) | |
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| No: Clarence Thomas, from "Opinion," Kansas v. Hendricks, U.S. Supreme Court (1997) | |
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| Does an Imprisoned Individual Have a Constitutional Right to Access the State's Evidence for DNA Testing? | |
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| Yes: John Paul Stevens, from "Dissenting Opinion," District Attorney's Office v. Osborne, 557 U.S. (2009) | |
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| No: John Roberts, from "Majority Opinion," District Attorney's Office v. Osborne, 557 U.S. (2009) | |
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| Contributors | |